Auguste de LA BARRE DE NANTEUIL
Législation de l'île de la Réunion. Répertoire raisonné des lois, ordonnances royales, ordonnances locales, décrets coloniaux, décrets impériaux, règlements et arrêtés d'un intérêt général, en vigueur dans cette colonie.[Legislation of the Island of Réunion. A Systematic Digest of the Laws, Royal Ordinances, Local Ordinances, Colonial Decrees, Imperial Decrees, Regulations, and Orders of General Interest in Force in This Colony]
E. Donnaud|Paris 1861-1863|17.5 x 26 cm|6 volumes reliés
Second edition, partly original as it was revised and enlarged, and the most complete form of this celebrated manual of local law for the island of Réunion (cf. Ryckebusch 2407; Toussaint & Adolphe D439).
The work is illustrated with three folding tables inserted out of text (two in the fifth volume, one in the last).
Contemporary half-sheep bindings in dark green, smooth spines gilt-tooled with dotted ornaments, fillets and garlands, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges.
Some rubbing to a few headcaps and spines, the upper headcap of the sixth volume torn, restorations to several spines.
€2,000